Add creating multiple identical giveaways to definition of spam

RESERVED (for no reason).

I like when giveaway creators split multiple copies into multiple giveaways instead of putting them all together because it causes people to spend more points to enter. This makes people consider what they are entering because they will have less points to spend and I think that is a good thing.

If I am interested in the game, I am happy to see them and will enter. If I am not interested, I will block the game and never see them again, so it doesn't matter to me how many they create.

Couldn't care less how people decide to do their giveaways.

This is a surprising question coming from someone who hasn't won a single giveaway in over 2 years - if you're not joining many giveaways, then you must already be utilizing the "hide game" feature?

• Are these games you're interested in? If not, just hide the game.
• If you find this sort of thing happening with the same user, then blacklist the user instead.
• If both of the points above apply and you're still miffed, build a bridge and get over it ;-)

Outside of simple convenience, how is this a problem?
It's not like there's a limit to how many simultaneous giveaways can exist at any given time, they're not clogging the system or anything of the sort, at most they're making you scroll a bit further down.

I'd be slightly annoyed by it, if they took up several pages and I couldn't just blacklist them. As is? I can BL anyone going a bit overboard, and I'll never see any of their giveaways again. Not that I care enough to do so. 🤷‍♂️

And it's not like that sort of thing really works, so it's their waste of time and resources. Most people just ignore the giveaway description. I get maybe two to four comments on average for each giveaway I do, and that's only asking a few seconds of someone's time. I doubt half of those people would stop to watch a video.

Another reason for multiple single-copy giveaways instead of one big multi-copy giveaway is that it's a lot easier to handle single copy giveaways if there's a problem with a winner. I had once the case that there were less winners than copies and one winner already had the game. You then need a super-mod to get that one copy deleted and that can take half a year or longer.

Everything should stay as it is.

A) Giveaway creators should be able to create giveaways however they want and B) creating more giveaways helps reducing the overall pool of points the community sits upon. Fewer giveaways create fewer points spent which in return creates a bigger pool of saved points and thus creates inflation of points which in return devalues giveaways.

When most users constantly sit upon 350 to 400 points they can enter any giveaway without thinking about if they really want to own or play the game. They just enter because they can.
The ideal state of SG would be that users really feel the impact of joining a 40p or 50p giveaway and thus really think about if they really want to own that game and spend so much points on it or if they rather enter 2 giveaways for 25p instead for games they like more.

It's a very complicated and fine line we're treading regarding spending and regeneration of points, so every giveaway that helps reducing the pool of saved up points is fine in my book.

If it is copies they claimed free they do it, cause these keys are often bad and they beg for being able delete giveaway. That way you need just one approvement and they don't lose all CV on deletion. Better would be not allowing them delete, so we can look on how many fake emails they have to claim free keys.

Users are free to decide how they want to make their giveaways. Actually, I prefer separate giveaways instead of one multiple-copy giveaway, so I would vote that multiple-copy giveaway should be forbidden. Why your convenience should be more important than my?

I'm unsure if you want a solution or you just want to share how you dislike the system because of those users, but you can hide the games, or blacklist those users. In case of blacklisting you can't enter their giveaways either, and the site hides those public ones by default.